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15 Responses to “SARAH’S ARMY ACTION ALERTS”

lizsaid

Vice President should be able to become president without a vote from anyone the chain of commends .

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Presidential Eligibility

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States. since constitution written adoption date .1789

Presidential Eligibility

No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any Person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States.
Article II, Section 1, Clause 5
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The Constitution imposes three eligibility requirements on the Presidency—based on the officeholder’s age, residency, and citizenship—that must be satisfied at the time of taking office. By virtue of the Twelfth Amendment, the qualifications for Vice President are the same. The Framers established these qualifications in order to increase the chances of electing a person of patriotism, judgment, and civic virtue.

First, Presidents must be thirty-five years of age or older. In contrast, Senators must be at least thirty years old, and Representatives no less than twenty-five years old. As Justice Joseph Story has noted, the “character and talent” of a man in the middle age of life is “fully developed,” and he has had the opportunity “for public service and for experience in the public councils.”

Second, the President must have been a “Resident” of the United States for fourteen years. By contrast, to be a Member of Congress, one must be an “Inhabitant” of the State one is representing. During the Constitutional Convention, James Madison contended that “both [terms] were vague, but the latter [‘Inhabitant’] least so in common acceptation, and would not exclude persons absent occasionally for a considerable time on public or private business.” Then as now, inhabitant meant being a legal domiciliary, but resident could mean either a domiciliary or a physical presence. Perhaps the Framers desired a person as President who had actually been present in the United States for the required period and had developed an attachment to and understanding of the country, rather than one who was legally an inhabitant, but who may have lived abroad for most of his life. On the other hand, the distinction may have been one of style rather than substance. As Justice Story later noted, “by ‘residence,’ in the constitution, is to be understood, not an absolute inhabitancy within the United States during the whole period; but such an inhabitancy, as includes a permanent domicil in the United States.”

There is some evidence that the Framers believed the fourteen-year residency requirement could be satisfied cumulatively, rather than consecutively. An earlier version of the clause excluded individuals who have “not been in the whole, at least fourteen years a resident within the U.S.” (emphasis added), and historical evidence suggests that deletion of the phrase “in the whole” was not intended to alter the provision’s meaning. This might explain the election of Herbert Hoover, whose successful 1928 campaign for President came less than fourteen years after his return to the United States in 1917. Others may argue that Hoover had simply maintained a United States domicile throughout his tenure abroad.

The third qualification to be President is that one must be a “natural born Citizen” (or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the Constitution). Although any citizen may become a Member of Congress so long as he has held citizenship for the requisite time period, to be President, one must be “a natural born Citizen.” Undivided loyalty to the United States was a prime concern. During the Constitutional Convention, John Jay wrote to George Washington, urging “a strong check to the admission of Foreigners into the administration of our national Government; and to declare expressly that the Commander in Chief of the American army shall not be given to nor devolve on, any but a natural born Citizen.” Justice Story later noted that the natural-born–citizenship requirement “cuts off all chances for ambitious foreigners, who might otherwise be intriguing for the office.”

Under the longstanding English common-law principle of jus soli, persons born within the territory of the sovereign (other than children of enemy aliens or foreign diplomats) are citizens from birth. Thus, those persons born within the United States are “natural born citizens” and eligible to be President. Much less certain, however, is whether children born abroad of United States citizens are “natural born citizens” eligible to serve as President. As early as 1350, the British Parliament approved statutes recognizing the rule of jus sanguinis, under which citizens may pass their citizenship by descent to their children at birth, regardless of place. Similarly, in its first naturalization statute, Congress declared that “the children of citizens of the United States, that may be born beyond the sea, or out of the limits of the United States, shall be considered as natural born citizens.” 1 Stat. 104 (1790). The “natural born” terminology was dropped shortly thereafter. See, e.g., 8 U.S.C. § 1401(c). But the question remains whether the term “natural born Citizen” used in Article II includes the parliamentary rule of jus sanguinis in addition to the common law principle of jus soli. In United States v. Wong Kim Ark (1898), the Supreme Court relied on English common law regarding jus soli to inform the meaning of “citizen” in the Fourteenth Amendment as well as the natural-born–citizenship requirement of Article II, and noted that any right to citizenship though jus sanguinis was available only by statute, and not through the Constitution. Notwithstanding the Supreme Court’s discussion in Wong Kim Ark, a majority of commentators today argue that the Presidential Eligibility Clause incorporates both the common-law and English statutory principles, and that therefore, Michigan Governor George Romney, who was born to American parents outside of the United States, was eligible to seek the Presidency in 1968.

dougsaid

‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. — That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men and women, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to affect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security’

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Stephen Whitrocksaid

Americans want a true conservative that’s honest and who’se morals are beyond reproach.An intelligent,experienced patriot that believes in gun rights,rights of the unborn,a faith in God and a backbone to stand up for what’s right.That person is Sarah Palin!

NO MOSQUE AT GROUND ZEREO, PROTECT ALASKA PIPELINE FOR ALASKA AND AMERICA, (COMPANIES THAT USE THE PIPELINE SHOULD HELP
FIX IT) IT WOULD CREATE JOBS FOR AMERICAN WORKER. THIS IS WERE THE STIMULAS MONEY SHOULD GONE TO THIS, NOT SPENDING MONEY
STUPID THIS STUDY OF GAY PENGUINS.

Dee Smithsaid

Wondering if Sarah Palin would be willing to head an effort to “out bid” the mosque at Ground Zero in NYC now that they’ve ruled it will not be protected as a “historic” building. With a population of 300+ million, if everyone contributed only $1.00, we could buy the building three times over! I know Sarah believes it is wrong to even consider allowing such an insult to the memory of those who died and their families and that it is absolutely a blatant slap in the face of all Americans. It just seems like she’d be the perfect person to head up a movement that might guarantee to stop this insanity.

Rich Rosensaid

A payroll company embezzled and stole millions from over 3800 small and mid size business nationwide.
We personally had over $110,000 stolen -since this was tax withholdings the payroll company didnt file – my 2 person company is on the hook to pay the $110,000 + to the IRS AGAIN…. plus interest and penalties.

Mean while the men who embezzled and stole the money – admitted the guilt had asset frozen -yet when get out on bail — went and opened a new payroll company in the same county and state (NJ)

The goverment puts no regulations on payroll companies, no licensing, no bonding nothing… despite giving these companies access to you and your employees social security #, Tax Id #, and direct access to your corp. bank account.

Since the IRS did get paid the small business’s have to pay again — many of the 3800 companies are going out of business becuase of this… since you cant write the full amount off and they are getting hit with thousands more in interest and penalites…

This needs to stop — These business were not trying to get around paying taxs — they did everything right but got robbed .
the amount we are all out would not have covered the presidential detail for Obama to go on vacation..

If the teaparty is for America and small business then please help us get laws passed so this doesnt happen again and help us get out of this mess.

Keep us fighting about mundane things and worried to death about our beaches in the Gulf that bills get passed without hardly a peep from the media and nobody has a clue what is in it do we care anymore ?

I am trying to raise funds for Tennessee . Do you see my tweets, I wonder ? , I am speaking out about our border and will stand with you and Glenn Beck for what is right . I worry about issues that are not being addressed …. I want to sell a digital painting of mine and all of the profit go to the flood relief . I am waiting until I have lots of support getting folks aware of it . I am the poorest of the poor !!